Letter from to Terence O’Reilly, 5 North Great George’s Street, Dublin, solicitor, returning a draft conveyance and stating that they have no objection to having a covenant reinstated in the matter of a lease by the Right Hon. William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford and Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and others of a plot of ground situated on the west side of Church Street.
Letter from J. Taylor, National Bank Limited, Dublin, to ‘Reverend Prior, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin’ enclosing ‘a short list of deeds … connected with Church St. solely’. With a typescript copy of said list.
Letter from James J. Darragh, 154 North King Street, to Lieutenant McNamara thanking Boys’ Brigade members for their messages of condolence on the death of his mother. Darragh added ‘All I can say is that as long as I am connected with the Brigade (and which I intend to be for many years I hope, in spite of the many mean tricks that are being resorted to try to get me out of it), I will always look after the interests of the officers …’.
Letter from Michael J. Dwyer, Main Street, Roscrea, to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, expressing his joy in having a branch of the organisation established in Roscrea.
Letter from C. J. Murray, Honorary Secretary of the Church Street Disaster Fund Committee, regarding the case of William Carthy, a five-year-old child living at 33 North Brunswick Street. The author writes: ‘I am of the opinion from what I have seen of the surroundings of the place that the Committee ought to take immediate steps to have the child taken from his aunt and placed in a boarding school’.
Letter from the Hibernian Fire and General Insurance Company, 49 Dame Street, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street, regarding fire insurance of £18,625 to cover the buildings and contents of the Friary and Church. Reference is also made to the lack of insurance for the Sacred Heart Chapel.
Letter from the Most Reverend Henry Henry, Bishop of Down and Connor, to [Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC], referring to a request made by one of his Belfast priests to establish a Boys’ Brigade similar to the one founded on Church Street. Archbishop Henry asks for a copy of the rules and inquires whether ‘the results produced would justify the expenditure of time and trouble and I suppose funds’.
Letter from W.V. Nagle, National Bank, 34 College Green, Dublin, to Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, guardian, Church Street Friary, referring to the ‘American draft’ of £59 5s 6d and enclosing copies of two accounts of the Capuchins with the aforementioned Bank.
Letter of William Kavanagh, brass plate engraver, 28 Wellington Quay, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street, referring to the designs and illustrations of brass memorial tablets for St. Mary of the Angels. With printed enclosure of various brass memorial templates which could be used.
List of apostolates, chaplaincy and diocesan appointments for friars attached to the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The lists were compiled for the visit of Fr. Flavio Carraro OFM Cap., General Minister.
